Universal issues

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 23:00, Joshua Root wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I proposed last month that we need a way (e.g. in "port installed")
>> to see for which architectures a given universal binary was built:
>>
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-May/ 
>> 005314.html
>>
>> When a port is installed, we need to record somewhere what
>> architectures were requested. Ideally this should happen regardless
>> of whether the universal variant was used or not. If it wasn't used,
>> then the requested architecture is just "i386" or "ppc".
>
> Another good idea. Technically the non-universal arch should be  
> obtained
> from "--target=" in the output of gcc -v, for future-proofing.

Except that "gcc -v" on my machine says "--target=i686-apple-darwin8"  
but we want the arch recorded as "i386" not "i686" (right?).

Then there's "uname -p" which says "i386" on Intel, but on PowerPC it  
says "powerpc" (instead of "ppc" like we want).